After graduating from John
Carroll, Julie Wehby Little attended the University of Montevallo and graduated
in 2001 with a degree in Elementary Education. She taught in Shelby County
Schools for eight years as an 8th grade English teacher and a boys’ soccer coach.
She earned her Master’s in Education from the University of Montevallo in 2004 and
moved to DeKalb County. In 2009 she got married and worked as a school
counselor at Collinsville School in Collinsville, Alabama.
Julie went back to school one
more time and received a Master’s in Counseling in 2010 from the University of
West Alabama. She also coached the boys’ soccer team there for six years. In
2013 her team won a state championship, becoming the first public school in
1A-4A to win a soccer championship, the first 1A school to win a soccer state
championship, and the first all-Hispanic team, in any sport, to win a state
championship.
After getting divorced in 2014, Julie
was recruited by Albertville High School to take over their girls’ soccer
program. She moved to Albertville in 2015, where she became the 2nd grade
counselor in addition to coaching soccer. She recently moved to the middle
school, where she is the 7th grade counselor, but she’s still coaching at the
high school. Her team made it to the Elite 8 her first year at Albertville and
to the Sweet 16 last season.
Julie said she did not go to
college to be a soccer coach, she got recruited into it during her first years
of teaching, and it stuck. She spends her summers volunteering with the
Muscular Dystrophy Camp – the place she went 22 years ago to complete her John
Carroll service hours. She’s been back every summer since.
In addition to coaching and
volunteering, Julie plays adult league soccer in Birmingham, referees soccer,
and spends as much time with my four nieces and 4 four nephews as she can.
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